Welcome to Employee Orientation for new and
transferring Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) employees. This site provides
the essential information, forms, contacts,
and checklists that you will need to begin working
at DFRC. Your orientation
starts here and will continue with onsite in-processing,
briefings, training, and management receptions.
To get started, select your employee type from
the list above and follow the checklist.

Center Director - David D. McBride

Welcome to the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center . As you may know, since 1946
engineers and pilots from NASA and its predecessor, the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics, have been conducting pioneering flight research above
Rogers Dry Lake and the Mojave Desert . Our proud heritage includes the X-1,
X-15, Lunar Landing Research Vehicle, F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire, F-8 Supercritical
Wing, the Space Shuttle, and many other research vehicles that have contributed
enormously to the nation’s aerospace technologies.
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Where We've Been
Dryden's history dates back to the early fall of 1946, when a group of five aeronautical engineers arrived at what is now Edwards from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory (today, Langley Research Center), Hampton, Va. Their goal was to prepare for the X-l supersonic research flights in a joint NACA-U.S. Army Air Forces-Bell Aircraft Corp. program.+ More+ Contributions